the. old. ownership speech now in the palm of your. machine. thousands of egyptians remain in time for your square for the six day following violent clashes with security forces that have claimed to the lines of thirty six people. just to separate today pledged by military would is to speed up presidential elections and are demanding that on the steps down immediately in cairo in just a few minutes. the u.n. general stanley human rights committee condemned syria for its violent crackdown on anti-government protests but damascus calls it a u.s. led lots of talk of its government. and five years after the death of former after the officer alexander litvinenko from pauline poisoning in london the case remains unsolved and

a sword in the side of russian british relations. if any on the russian capital you're watching r t on a marina josh welcome to the program thousands of egyptians remain in cairo stuff for you square demanding an immediate end to military rule that's the spider their earlier plans by the country's army chief to bring forward presidential elections to june of next year following across to our correspondent policy or was following developments for us on the ground in cairo if you paul well the courthouse there showing huge determination camping out all night and is that it's the sixth day in road out so how far are they willing to go. paula can you hear me. looks like we're having some sound problems with our

correspondent paula can you hear me we'll try to connect with her later in the program. brian becker from the anti-war coalition and service says that western powers would rather have a familiar ally at the top in egypt despite public demands for change the united states and britain but principally the united states is looking at a number of options there their primary option was to keep mubarak in power forever or then his sons and that can't be that can't happen right now so they thought then that they would have a military rule that would create those political leaders who were acceptable to the west that's come undone because the military has not let go of the tight grip on power and so now they're looking for plan c. mohamed el baradei he is a familiar face to the west he is recognized by the west he was the chairman of the i.a.e.a. he was somewhat independent of the united states but not really a severe challenge to the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course

i think clancy might be considered by the american government the best to be available options but the egyptian people want to genuine democracy they don't want an interim government appointed by those who are really still be institutions of power from the mubarak. now we're going back to our correspondent there hope she hears this poem can you hear me. well yes we were talking about protesters and in fact the question to ask before how far are they willing to go i mean it's been the six day they're protesting there in the square. well here in tampa square there are several hundred so-called diehards who remained overnight there simply going nowhere may reflect the general mood and sentiment of tens of thousands of people many of those people have gone home but no doubt they will return later in the day now the protesters who are here many of them are still sleeping there had old in blankets the side of buildings many of them are keeping themselves warm makes two fires just walking around town here now there is a lot of litter and there's

a lot of evidence of the dramatic violence we saw unfolding yesterday the medics and the hospitals reported that they were simply unable to cope and in the figure we have is some fifty six people who have been killed and some two thousand who have been injured but medics saying that within the first two hours of violence they were treated five hundred people that translates to one person if we five seconds the result of people here is as strong as it was ever last night mohammed ali the head of the supreme council of armed forces the head of the army that is essentially leading this country gave a live televised address for ten minutes and from up at a place people here was shouting no no you need to leave down with tom tom we so any kind of reforms of any kind of agreement that the military is trying to put forward to protest just demands is not being accepted people here say that it echoes the attempts by the former egyptian president hosni mubarak back in february

to remain in power. because of the army he has promised political reform and given the go ahead even for parliamentary elections next monday but what are the chances that the military will actually make way for a civilian government. well this is the concern that protesters here have they don't really believe that the army will hand over power and that's why they very reluctant to accept any kind of promises that the army is pushing for which in that speech by mohammed last night he promised that they would be aid and acceptance of the resignation of his government although he said that it would remain in power until its new government was in place and also committed itself to holding presidential elections by next june although it would only be a transfer of power come july the other points he made he offered a referendum on the immediate transfer of power and he accepted as i said his cabinet resignation and said that he would hold elections in line with what people have been demanding that people here simply believe that is too little too late

they want a handover of power immediately they want to see the military council step down and and that's the question that people here are asking is what exactly is going to happen for people here to be displayed because thirty talking to protesters they say they're going nowhere. ok paula thanks very much for bringing us this update from cairo pothier reporting there and we're closely following the protests in cairo on our web site which is our home so you can log on and watch why food is from to where your square where thousands are protesting against military rule and also visit our you tube channel for more videos and updates. as egyptians lose their lives in a five for a change in their country western powers have been slow to condemn the violence the u.s. has only that it's concerned about the excessive force has been used on protesters as our correspondent are about to reports the focus of the western allies remains elsewhere. egypt descends into chaos once more the first signs of

cracks appearing in the arab spring it's been the focus of the world's media spotlight but western leaders now turning a blind eye instead setting their sights on past is the abuses and loss of life so you can play both in syria the future of syria now depends upon the ability of all of us to keep pressure on that because of all up you've called in prison bashar al assad to make reforms for all around thirty people have died already in cairo's clashes and it's been all over the international media when this sort of crackdown happened in february received international condemnation what's the difference this time well those in charge in egypt western governors standards that work. in very good libya in order to change the government because of threats against the people. they have put sanctions against some countries because of oppression of

civil liberties i think the west basically quite happy to carry on with a military structure in egypt that will be yours of them since president barrack was forced out nine months ago egypt's been under the rule of the supreme military council thousands of activists unhappy with the lack of reforms have returned to relive their taria triumph only to be met by tear gas and bullets protesters now accused western nations that were previously supportive of having a hand in the crackdown but i'm not expecting a quick reaction from the west we can see that all the ammunition used against us is these are american or israeli or actually tell you that it's the two guests canisters or the bullet all of the communities and what they have received is also as an eleven it's forced presumably revolutions and they are used for oppressing populations or they are used to kill this revolution for the likes of britain france and america though egypt is no longer a. it's next stop syria the u.k.

foreign secretary william hague and it's syrian opposition groups in london base weak and prime minister david cameron's being picked to spearhead an international diplomatic task force. to remove president assad from office the move mirrors similar attempts in egypt and libya president some say clearly should be followed as to libya becoming a bloodbath and now with egypt showing what it was all along it was no revolution there it was a complete failure and now people are beginning to understand it notice that nevertheless mrs clinton and miss rice are continuing to push this bankrupt discredited model of the color revolution the cia people power back the terrorist troops people from people from the muslim brotherhood the military council in egypt has said it will speed up presidential elections for protestors that's clearly not enough they haven't forgotten what their revolution was about even if it seems the

international community hands are the bennetts artsy london so the kind of program the sour claims double standards every time when millions of europeans are suffering job it and officials in brussels complain of having to make savings of their own. un human rights committee has agreed on a resolution condemning syria for its eight month crackdown on protesters in a vote banned by western nations and a number of arab states russia have stayed from voting and has been calling for dialogue between the syrian opposition and president ass's regime now has the details from new york. what this decision illustrates is an increasing amount of symbolic pressure against syria now having said that although this resolution was adopted and supported by one hundred twenty two states it holds no legal weight the

resolution does not call for any sanctions what it does is it calls on syria to end all human rights violations and abuses and of course on an international level puts the nation against syria. according to the u.n. roughly thirty five hundred people or at least have been killed since the uprisings began eight months ago this resolution however was introduced by germany and it is being seen as the first step the west is taking in an effort to really introduce the issue of syria into the united nations security council now just last month when european powers introduced a draft resolution against syrian security council russia and china vetoed that resolution arguing that the mistakes that western powers made in libya should not be repeated in syria or russia believes that the syrian authorities and opposition

groups need to come to a point of negotiation and peaceful dialogue to come up with an ultimate solution that would be best for this internal conflict and according to russia russia and other countries i should mention the security council believe that any outside military intervention into syria should not happen and is considered unacceptable. for him there now posing by polonium and a political outcry it's now exactly five years since the russian former security agent alexander litvinenko died on british soil and the spy saga gripped the global attention and led to a diplomatic spat between moscow and london smith reports continues to cause a rift between the two countries. five years on and still an immovable thought in the side of ross a british relations mosco weren't extradite britain's chief suspect in the two thousand and six murder of alexander litvinenko because andrey lugovoy is

a russian citizen and britain refuses to hand over the evidence so russia can conduct its own investigation britain insists extradition is the only path to justice russia wouldn't go against its constitution and past both governments are not a position where it's very difficult to imagine either side giving anything fortune to the slogan a question. which has been gone through over the last five years. with morris fixed i agree. that neither side really. anywhere near the middle. difficult to see how it's going to move forward in london because we don't have a reader has to excess believe lobbied for a new wives arranging inquest into her husband's death look i voice says he welcomes the news and has offered to give evidence by a video link he also welcomes marina libyan because it mysen that her husband was working as a consultant for the british secret service is duke of always says he himself was

branded a liar for saying the same thing but it's not just the truth it's most of async a year before you buy that it was but she didn't like the position of the british government who were against widening the investigation as he was in egypt he wasn't operating alone he was acting in accordance with some kind of orders and some kind of command structure so the british secret services resign are nearby to his death so in her mind they should take responsibility and that means paying the lawyers who are expanse of the british streets and. this was really good variable marina libby in yonkers legal costs could run to one and a half million dollars and international relations have paid a heavy price to belittling and bear lurks in the background of every diplomatic visit and business deal between russia and britain and the new hearings in which accusations from both sides will be heard in open court unlikely to mend fences

this is unfortunately the key barrier to improve relations between north. and the interests of both governments. would be very welcome if this problem can be solved in this case can be solved because you can't do anything with lugovoy. if you're going to move forward. and it doesn't have a monitor. because against him it looks like that person will be to me. formally i suspect he was with it been yes and lugovoy here at the millennium hotel on the tapes believe he was poisoned he was investigated by german police in connection with traces of polonium that were found in his hamburg apartment but the case was dropped but the bedridden despite that scruple suggest coast tune is moving back into the british police to break following the closure of the criminal

case in chief bassma nine got hold of the police evidence against him he doubts they'll be able to pin anything on him this time around either. give evidence at the new hearings by video link to so far as an interested party five years on since . there are still a lot of interested parties ready to put their case on but there's little sign of anyone being held accountable laura smith party loved. well all of our news stories and much more are available online on our website r.t. dot com the first of free space fan returned safely to earth aboard a russian spacecraft after six months in orbit also online. lawmaking with and with a half hour south korea's parliament gets gas during one of its sessions wants to be on our. wealthy british soil but. that's not on. the front. door of.

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easy was going through its toughest test yet was europeans losing their jobs and wages and pensions being slashed as governments impose tougher staring measures it's all in the name of staving off bankruptcy and saving a common currency but when it comes to cutting costs it seems your crass and brussels aren't too keen on making sacrifices themselves our correspondents are syria has more. this is become a familiar sight in the streets of europe symptomatic of the euro crisis and now it seems that the tide of discontent is rising within the plush halls of the bass european commission bureaucracy the. staff unions are threatening to go on strike after rejecting a proposal by the commission or the e.u. civil service to save a one billion euros over seven years by reducing pensions increasing working hours from thirty seven point five to forty a week raising the retirement age limiting pay rises and cutting five percent of

jobs but you know they they get one point eight three rice. and they say it's all a union representing lower paid staff says the media tends to lock them with the fact cats who get most from the e.u. gravy train he wants the highest salaries of those at the top to be slashed instead the commissioners have privileges which indeed almost stopped in time they do not contribute to their pensions we pay eleven point six percent and they do not contribute anything but some politicians are astonished at the notion of a strike by officials they claim are featherbed it while ordinary workers are losing their jobs and face hardship to get excellent health care free education for their children in private schools here wonderful pension deal and you wonder people listening to this at home working or. working ten hours a day these guys are grumbling because they're being asked to work eight hours

a day while they're perfectly within their rights to contest the proposed changes to their working conditions or raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of new citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh sturdy measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for not to mention the twenty three million who don't even have jobs to speak of through move water through perks to suggest that they take a slightly lower percentage increase. it's hard to go to break the world to an end still union members are adamant they're getting the short end of the stick against . you know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think that the salary cap is much too high and we would like to close that. many of us would be ready to pay for it but whether european taxpayer share the same willingness to sustain the benefits of a civil servants in brussels at a time when they themselves are forced to accept a sturdy measures is another question to answer cilia artsy brussels. the

financial crisis is europe's most pressing issue but not the only one according to the leader of the freedom party of austria he's told r.t. that multiculturalism and immigration policies are failing and that europe must stop expanding these sorts you can watch the full interview later this hour but there's a preview. i want you to stay with. you see your experiment in playing. countries which we know europe in asia and the nation it would mean the end of europe in that it would mean an end to the european idea of peace and social skills. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world first to pakistan where the country's ambassador to the u.s. has stepped down after allegedly asking for help in his fight against the military saying how carney is accused of asking washington to assist with scams to combat the spread of a passion to take over the mantle to the u.s.

was allegedly written in may although needs now is the allegations he offered to step down after meeting with army and intelligence chiefs in a solid bottom tuesday the country has witnessed ongoing tension with the u.s. navy seals killed osama bin laden six months ago. libya's interim prime minister has announced a new transitional government to steer the country towards its first fully democratic elections in june the freshly appointed cabinet will also be responsible for drafting the country's new constitution interim prime minister ibrahim al qaida says the lineup is designed to represent all of libya and put an end to regional rivalries the country is aiming to forge a more democratic path after former. was captured and killed just one month ago. in mexico security forces have seized more than fifteen million u.s. dollars in cash after searching a car in the border city of tijuana during a military raid packages of cocaine weapons and jewelry were also found authorities

believe the vehicle was heading to a home. used as a financial hub by the country's most powerful drug cartels and it's the second largest cash seizure since president felipe calderon took office nearly five years ago. and through some dramatic pictures which were seen live by horrifying internet yours in new zealand a helicopter getting tangled up in cables and snapping in half the pilot was thrown around the cabin but incredibly survived the crash the chopper was installing a giant christmas tree on all kinds waterfront when its main road for years to happen with local media reports the pilot escape any major injuries during my research. we watching our team and our interview and sports are just a few minutes away as well as a recap of the headlines before that will take a little is happening in the world of business with your ear.

well welcome to the program russia is living up to its image as a country of shopaholics but untrue a new survey it's the third most attractive market for a tail is in europe africa and the middle east usually in germany top the rankings social foreign investment in the sector has exceeded seven hundred sixteen million euro since the beginning of the year while luxury goods sellers are doing well the most active are tailless offer casual clothing the only losers and of tronic strains that consumers and personally prefer to do their shopping on the internet. let's have a look at the markets crude oil is a raising early gains as concerns about global demand such fears are supplies from which are run fueled by current tensions t.i.a. is trading at over nine to six dollars a barrel while branches that one hundred eight troubles about. shares in asia are mostly low or after a survey by any chance be soon showed chinese manufacturing is stallman's worse

than expected also investors such as pointers by for u.s. economic growth figures that sign is losing two percent more to form the low in hong kong for the chinese data on the nikkei is closed for a public holiday. and finally the russian markets opened makes a minus it's the suffering the loss of more than one percent in early trade the artist is collateral positive role in that from government capital previews today's trade. today after yesterday's small biomes i think it's actually quite a key. if we can if we can maintain some of the momentum from yesterday and maybe they'll be a flawed one under the market but i have to say that given the focus there continues to be on europe. spreads there are still very very markets are still very concerned about what's going on in europe it seems that we. need to have some kind of official response out of europe before any conviction

comes to any markets including russia but you know if we do see a continuation of yesterday's rally i think there will be a pause in the supposed sentiment towards the market. in other news russia's economy has expanded over four percent to the first ten months of the gear a seasonal rise in agricultural production help to speed up growth in the autumn become the ministry is considering raising its cost mystic profit forecast for the whole year but russia statistics service says more and more local entrepreneurs expect the economic situation to get worse in the next six months with industrial output growing at the slowest pace in two years. and russian lenders have seen a significant decline in the share of but loans and their retail fall of the country's central bank says a drop to around six percent compared to over nine percent last year clients mostly face trouble with their playing small loans and mortgage loans. and rushing movers

might be good are part of the business they still have a long way to go the market shelved domestically made films and russia has harmed in the last two years and is now below ten percent russian movie is earned just eight to seven million dollars in the first a month this year and that's in a market that's growing at eight percent and was almost a billion dollars producers blamed the crisis and the lack of financing for their little big box russian films. and finally moscow subway is going private the city is government is letting truck truck private investors to the construction of a new nine program at a line which they will then operate the head of the most a match show says he was aware of interest from domestic and foreign investors including a spanish infrastructure company analysts say the project could be worth up to several billion dollars. that's it for now europe today during the less than fifteen minutes for another business update here on our team.

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